Why do film makers show things differently?!
Question: For example. King Henry Tudor...why do they show his character so differently in each and every movie?
Why do producers have different way of seeing a character?
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Answers: For example. King Henry Tudor...why do they show his character so differently in each and every movie?
Why do producers have different way of seeing a character?
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Ah, but you'll notice that they only do that with people like Henry VIII who are not only dead, but who died a very long time ago. There is no film footage of Henry because he died hundreds of years before the camera was invented, so there is no good evidence about how he stood, talked, walked, etc. This means that each production team has to make up its own mind about these things and obviously they come to different conclusions. But you're never going to have someone play Henry as a weak, soft, frightened, effeminate character because nobody ever said he was like that. You're just going to get variations on a theme of randy/manly/swashbuckling etc.
However, when they depict someone famous who lived within the age of film or TV or newsreel or whatever, there is often photographic evidence of how that person walked and talked etc., so they take fewer liberties. Lots of people have played Franklin Roosevelt and Andy Warhol on film but there's not much variation about how they've done it - FDR is usually in a wheelchair, smokes a pipe, is stern but kindly, makes inspiring speeches etc., while Andy Warhol always has a big silver wig and dresses in black and wears dark glasses and says everything in a whisper, because we know that that's what Andy liked to do. I've seen Crispin Glover, David Bowie and Jared Harris play Andy Warhol and they weren't all that different from each other.
Depends on what the filmmakers (producers, directors, writers, actors) are intent upon depicting. In the case of "The Other Boleyn Girl," the intention was to be a little scandalous and ultimately sympathetic toward the girls. Other movies were more interested in showing the character of Henry VIII. Still others were interested in Henry's insistence on splitting with Rome.